amaurosis
/ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/noun
amaurosis is a noun meaning “Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-A-U-R-O-S-I-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of amaurosis is amauroses.
What does amaurosis mean?
noun
- 1
Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce amaurosis?
- US /ˌæ.mɔˈɹoʊ.səs/
Amaurosis has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of amaurosis
- amauroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is amaurosis?
Amaurosis appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Amaurosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye:
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Where does amaurosis come from?
Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).